Countries affected by malaria in sub
Saharan Africa are to benefit from a new campaign involving distribution
of 700 million bednets to people living in the region to reduce deaths
caused by the disease by 2015.

A number of organisations led by the
World Health Organisation have already mobilised $5 billion for the campaign,
which will involve setting up more factories to make bednets.

Currently, only factories under a company
called A-Z with plants in Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia are making nets
for the region.